NSPCC Cymru/Wales is supporting a campaign to increase the number of people signing up for Child Rescue Alert – a scheme to help find missing children as soon as possible.
Child Rescue Alert is a national alerting system run by the charity Missing People, the National Crime Agency and technology company Groupcall.
Similar systems around the world have helped in the search for hundreds of children. Child Rescue Alerts have been issued three times in the UK, most recently in March last year.
More than 315,000 people are currently registered to receive targeted Child Rescue Alerts which are issued by the charity Missing People on request of the police.
Alerts to subscribers include a short description of the child, information police believe may be useful, a URL and a picture. They can be received via text message, email, app or social media.
NSPCC Cymru is now calling on people across Wales to sign up to the scheme to help protect children who are missing and are believed to be in danger.
An NSPCC Cymru spokesman said: “We are urging people across Wales to sign up to the Child Rescue Alert scheme to help protect children after they have been reported missing.
“It is hugely important that police are given as much help as possible when searching for missing children who are at risk of being harmed.
“The more people that sign up to the scheme the quicker children who are in danger can be found.”
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